Dr. Van de Voorde is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Law, Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in criminal justice throughout the College, as well as senior seminars in the International Criminal Justice program. She is also a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Center on Media, Crime, and Justice and will soon serve as Faculty Advisor for the Criminal Justice Honors Society. Dr. Van de Voorde earned her Ph.D. from the University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) where she conducted research on suicide bombings. Her dissertation work was a qualitative analysis of the social construction of suicide terrorism. Dr. Van de Voorde is currently developing ethnographic projects regarding genocide (Sudan & DRC), cultural genocide (Tibet), human rights violations against refugees and internally displaced persons (Sudan/Chad, Nepal/India/Tibet), and child soldiers (Africa & Asia). Dr. Van de Voorde is an avid documentary photographer and the Visual Editor of Crime, Media, Culture (CMC), a fully peer reviewed, international journal published by Sage that provides the primary vehicle for exchange between scholars who are working at the intersections of criminological and cultural inquiry. As such, she has been zealously promoting the integration of visual methodologies into empirically novel but theoretically rigorous research projects. At the core of her work on political violence and international criminal justice, indeed, is a keen interest in theory-driven projects that incorporate innovative methodologies, such as photoethnography. One of her upcoming multi-site endeavors will focus on the memorialization of genocide. A fervent social activist, Dr. Van de Voorde further strives to provide valuable insight into gender-based abuses and persecution through the lens of deliberate violence against women, notably the use of rape and other forms of sexual violence as a weapon of war.